| 单词 | schoolboy mistake |
| 释义 | > as lemmasschoolboy mistake b. attributive, designating a very basic or foolish mistake, such as might be made by a schoolboy, as schoolboy blunder, schoolboy mistake, etc. See also schoolboy error n., schoolboy howler n. at Compounds 3. ΚΠ 1821 London Mag. Oct. 400/1 Any garreteering wight..might have avoided a rap on the knuckles for such school-boy slips as these. 1833 Fraser's Mag. Feb. 191/2 In the second page he falls into the schoolboy mistake with respect to the military skill of the ancient Greeks. 1838 Musical World 25 Oct. 120 Successive 5ths and 8ths, together with false progressions..: in fact, schoolboy blunders from first to last. 1917 T. R. Glover From Pericles to Philip vii. 224 Plutarch could make a schoolboy blunder with a Latin preposition. 1940 Stud. in Philol. 37 91 Among the schoolboy mistakes, repetition, that bane of undergraduate writing, troubled Lamb more than one might have suspected. 1999 Sunday Sport 3 Oct. 43/1 Wilkinson's boot made it 20–7 with two more kicks but then Dawson went from hero to zero with a schoolboy blunder. < as lemmas |
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